1939 Unaccounted Airmen Database Reconciliation

**paulmcmillan** · 4th December 2018, 13:22

Aircraftman 1st Class Harry PEART (539935)
GRIMSBY CYCLIST KILLED
Black-Out Crash Into Car at Derby J A GRIMSBY man, Harry Peart, (24:),
lately living 300, Heneage-road, received fatal injuries while motor-cycling along the London road, Derby,
late on Saturday night. He was attached to an R.A.F Balloon Sqn

Published: Tuesday 03 October 1939
Newspaper: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
County: Lincolnshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 105 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

**paulmcmillan** · 4th December 2018, 14:12

18 Sqn ORB

Aircraftman 2nd Class Edward Victor EADES (291424)
Died in Civil hospital at Amiens afrom the effect of (unclear) possibly diabetes

**paulmcmillan** · 4th December 2018, 14:40

Leading Aircraftman John FORBES (529906)

FIFE-KEITH YOUNG MAN FATALLY INJURED Leading aircraftman john FORBES, son of Mr and Mrs Charles Forbes. 9 Station Road, Fife- Keith, died in the Royal Northern Infirmary, Inverness, yesterday as th e result of injuries received in a motor cycle accident ...

Published: Thursday 05 October 1939
Newspaper: Aberdeen Press and Journal
County: Aberdeenshire, Scotland e

**paulmcmillan** · 4th December 2018, 14:59

Sergeant John Henry VICKERS (516606) Observer

http://aircrewremembered.com/vipan-arthur-1.html

27.09.1939 No. 103 Squadron Fairey Battle I K9271

Edinburgh Evening News, 23 November 1939

Sgt. John Henry Vickers was taken to hospital where he received the best medical attention, but due to his injuries,
died on the 5 October 1939. (2) John Henry Vickers was decorated with the French Medaille Militaire just before
he died making him the first member of the British Expeditionary Force to be honoured. John was first
buried on the 7 October 1939 in St. Louis Les Bitche French Military Cemetery, Moselle,
France. Grave 8 and reburied in Choloy War Cemetery, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France on the 30th June 1950.

**paulmcmillan** · 4th December 2018, 15:06

Sergeant George Greenley WITTY (565438) Pilot

Hurricane L1776

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=...0WITTY&f=false

**Jagan** · 4th December 2018, 15:21

Aircraftwoman 2nd Class Yvonne ROCKINGHAM (885756) 1939-11-29

WOMAN IN AIR FORCE DIES LONDON, Dec. 16-The name of the first Englishwoman to die on ac tive service in the war appears in the thirteenth Royal Air Force casualty list of forty-eight names issued tonight. She was Aircraft Yvonne Rockingham, a cook in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force, 39 years old, wife of an Air Ministry driver. She died in a hospital after a week's illness and was buried with military honours.

https://newspaperarchive.com/kingsto...-19-1939-p-35/

**paulmcmillan** · 4th December 2018, 15:51

Flight Sergeant Thomas Arthur COLE (1109)

The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957)

FLIGHT-SERG. A. T. COLE

Full Air Force honours were accorded

Flight-Sergeant Arthur Thomas Cole at

his funeral yesterday at the crematorium

in the New Melbourne General Cemetery,

Fawkner. Flight-Sergeant Cole, who was

aged 40 years, died on Friday from in-

juries received on Wednesday night, when

his motor-cycle, on which he was return-

ing home from Laverton, collided with two

Militia soldiers.

After a service at the chapel of Mr.

E. W. Jackson, Ferguson street, Williams-

town, the cortege was met by a firing and

escort party, and the band of the Royal

Australian Air Force. On the coffin, which

was draped with the Union Jack, were

Flight-Sergeant Cole's Air Force cap, side

arms, war medals, and the colours of the

55th battalion, A.I.F., with which he

served during the war. Members of the

Air Force carried the coffin and acted as

pall-bearers.

The ashes of Flight-Sergeant Cole will

be scattered over the Laverton aerodrome

from an R.A.A.F. plane.

Services at the chapel and at the ceme-

tery were conducted by Flight-Lieutenant

McWilliam. A Masonic service at the

cemetery was conducted by Warrant

Offlcer N. Dyer, and Flight-Officer A. D.

Swan was in charge of the firing party.

Chief mourners were Flight-Sergeant

Cole's widow, mother, and two young

sons.

The funeral was conducted by Mr.

E. W. Jackson, of Williamstown.